For the most part the suffering of stray animals in this country is caused by overpopulation and a lack of people to look after the homeless dogs and cats. There is another bad side-effect caused, perhaps directly, to this overpopulation or at least, because no one is looking after these animals as they roam around and eventually across roads.
The roads in Thailand are very dangerous for other motorists but for dog and cats it is often fatal. It is very common to see roadkill here in Southern Thailand as well as the rest of the country. I am sure that this is also true around the world.
In Thailand, when an animal is struck by a car or motorbike, they are often simply left to crawl off and die somewhere. Thankfully, sometimes we get alerted by these situations and we intervene.
Meet "Cookie," one of the friendliest injured dogs that you'll ever meet. Despite the injuries that he endured after being struck by a car, he was still very friendly, even though he was in a great deal of pain. The majority of the damage was in his right front leg and all the bones in it were basically shattered. Sadly, try as the vets did to help, the leg was suffering massive internal bleeding and other things that I do not understand because I am not a vet, and it had to be amputated.
This is all very tragic if we think about it too much because we think about how horrible it would be for us if we were to lose a limb. This is a good time to look at how dogs are so different from humans though because Cookie hasn't even fully recovered yet and already he is acting like he doesn't even know that he used to have a leg there where there is not none. He wags his tail when you approach him and although at least for now he spends a lot of his time lying down, when you want to play with him he is more than happy to do so and is adapting to being a tripod very well. It likely wont be very long before he is out and about playing with the other dogs but until we are sure it is safe, we have to keep him separated from the other dogs.
Dogs recover from amputations very well.. a lot better than most people might think. We have seen all manner of amputations here at Krabi Animal Welfare and even if it is a double amputation, the dog's spirits are still on a very high level any time we engage with them. Dogs truly are wonderful creatures.
The main problem that we have now is that as difficult as it is to find someone to adopt a dog in perfect health, it is much more difficult to find a home for a dog that is missing a leg. We are trying to keep our fingers crossed that someone out there has sympathy for Cookie and decides to take him on as a rescue. In the meantime, he is staying with us in our already overcrowded shelter until other arrangements can be made.
Lack of space is a very big problem for animal rescue organization like our all around the world and hopefully it is something we will be able to afford to expand in the future. Even if we run out of money entirely, we will always take care of all dogs in Cookie's situation because the alternative would be for him to suffer in a ditch somewhere until he eventually starved to death. Special thanks to the family that pointed Cookie out to us because if it weren't for you guardian angels out there we likely wouldn't have even known that he was hurt.
If you would like to see how you can help out or simply spread the word, please visit our website at
http://krabianimalwelfare.org
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Despite all the suffering, he remains strong. I thank you for publishing his story for everyone to be aware of his situation.
May you find home for poor "Cookie". Indeed, it is tough to find one for cases like Cookie's.
fortunately we may have found someone that is going to foster Cookie. These temporary looking afters tend to have at least a chance of turning into a permanent home so we have our fingers crossed.
⋆ ᴛʜᴇ ᴘʟᴀᴄᴇ ғᴏʀ sᴏᴜᴛʜᴇᴀsᴛ ᴀsɪᴀɴ ᴄᴏɴᴛᴇɴᴛ ᴏɴ ʜɪᴠᴇ
⋆ sᴜʙsᴄʀɪʙᴇ ᴛᴏ ᴛʜᴇ ᴀsᴇᴀɴ ʜɪᴠᴇ ᴄᴏᴍᴍᴜɴɪᴛʏ
⋆ ғᴏʟʟᴏᴡ ᴛʜᴇ ᴀsᴇᴀɴ ʜɪᴠᴇ ᴄᴏᴍᴍᴜɴɪᴛʏ ᴠᴏᴛɪɴɢ ᴛʀᴀɪʟ
⋆ ᴅᴇʟᴇɢᴀᴛɪᴏɴ ʟɪɴᴋs 25 ʜᴘ⇾50 ʜᴘ⇾100 ʜᴘ⇾500 ʜᴘ⇾1,000 ʜᴘ
Terrible that people don't care enough to check if the animal is alright or not. Here if we see this the local vet gets the animal dropped off and he takes it from there. Thailand sounds as though they have no feelings towards animals in general and I am wondering if it is cultural or not.
that's a tough one to answer. I think that most people and especially the Buddhists have a spiritual obligation to care but just like a lot of things in religion some might tend to ignore these obligations if nobody is looking.
The vet that we deal with would probably do what you are talking about as well and depending on the situation, might not even expect payment in return. I don't hear about this happening very often though, unfortunately.